The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Wahl: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about how a young Tracy in her 20s befriends an eccentric woman in her 80s and they start attending philosphical meetings in DC together | aging, DC, eccentric, philosophical society |
| Cranston Dize: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about being a 10th grade english teacher in a Baltimore City Public School, reflecting on students he’s lost to gun violence. | Baltimore City Public Schools, English, student, teacher |
| Avi Decter: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how his son wanted to bring a kitten to school for show and tell. | father, kitten, show and tell, son |
| Jael Freedman: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how a mean girl in 8th grade told a lie that Jael slept with 15 guys on the football field so Jael stopped going to school all together, | drop out, mean girl, playground, slut shaming |
| Brenda Wolf Smith: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Grew up in a residencial school in PA for special needs kids. | Downs Syndrome, PA, residencial, special needs |
| Ellis Marsalis III: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Two stories: 1st about his 4th grade son who collected Pokemon cards and ended up getting lots of his peers’ money selling them. Then the story going into a weird | 4th grade, fathers, junk, Pokemon, son |
| Jim Mancini: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Tales about Traveling Anywhere, Somewhere, and Nowhere at All Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new Traveling to China to adopt his first child | adoption, China, travel |
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Sarah Achenbach | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Arzoo Malhotra | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Ty | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Evan Serpick | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Noelle Benech | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Kim Seechuck | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Huong Hill | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Ryan Heller | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Jane Davis | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Michael Lisicky | December 12, 2023 | ||
| Ron: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Elliott: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Danny Joe LaBrecque: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Katie Hildreth: Balancing Act | |||
| Chisom: Bridging the Gap | finding her voice in the pandemic | ||
| Kevin Frick: Bah, Humbug! | December 8, 2021 | Relationship with young girl lead to him not realizing she was stealing from him | |
| Jennifer Mendelsohn: Bah, Humbug! | December 8, 2021 | Relationship with young girl lead to him not realizing she was stealing from him | |
| Don Palmer: Bah, Humbug! | December 8, 2021 | Relationship with young girl lead to him not realizing she was stealing from him | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Mannix: Animal Tales | September 22, 2008 | Story about her childhood cat named Sugar Bear eating her new pet named Tiny Fluffy Chicken. | ||
| Anne Roberts: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Anne Thomas: Mistakes were made | March 31, 2014 | |||
| Anne: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Annette March Grier: The Giving Life | November 13, 2013 | |||
| Annie Marshall: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Father sick in hospital reminder her of horror movie 7 | ||
| Anonymous: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | story about being a no touch escort | ||
| Anthony Watters: Unmasked | March 10, 2021 | story about starting a exercise company for the black community | black community, exercise, health, poverty | |
| Antoinette St. Claire: Movers and Shakers | March 4, 2020 | Integrated an all-white girls public high school in Chicago | brown v. board, Chicago, girls, segregation, trade school | |
| Anton Eckman: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | home school | ||
| Antonio: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | april fools day, love, marriage | |
| Anupam Manish: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Aphonso Mayo: I Did it My Way | November 1, 2018 | story about overcoming obstacles due to poverty and health and being seen for who he is and not the color of his skin/these obstacles | black, college, fatherhood, football, grandmother, grandson, heart surgery, HIV, poverty, Stevenson | |
| April Kersey: A World inside a City, II | May 4, 2012 | |||
| April Rejman : O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| April Rejman: Haunted | October 18, 2010 | |||
| Aran Keating | February 21, 2026 | |||
| Arcinda Edwards: Ch-ch-changes | March 13, 2012 | |||
| Ari Jacobson: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Gerstrung, friend won 1 million dollar lottery | ||
| Ari Jacobson: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Dressed as a red Teletubbie for Halloween college party. Went into an alley to pee. Police car came up to him. Cop made him go into his house to prove | alley, college, cops, Halloween, handcuffs, lease, pee, Teletubbie | |
| Ari: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | Story of finding queer community in Baltimore, getting involved with the climbing gym, and starting queer climbing days. | ||
| Arianne Rice: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | a young pastor feels out of her league when she’s called to support a set of grieving parents. | ||
| Arianne Rice: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2019 | December 12, 2019 | story about the first christmas as a priest getting a divorce | forgiveness, love, priest, sorrow | |
| Armand Girard: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| Arnold Weiner: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | |||
